Russia, China Restrict Imports
In Fight Against Foot-and-Mouth

A WSJ.com News Roundup

Updated March 26, 2001 8:07 a.m. ET

As the British army prepared to bury half a million sheep carcasses in an expanded effort to control foot-and-mouth disease, international restrictions on imports continued, with Russia and China instituting wider bans of meat and dairy products.

Russia's Agriculture Ministry on Monday banned meat and dairy from the 15-nation European Union and the three Baltic nations -- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- while China stopped imports of...